Participants stressed that access to medicines and health services are vital for the Asian region, especially since this region has the largest share of the world's people.
The Asian Regional Workshop on the WTO TRIPS Agreement and Access to Medicines: Appropriate National Policy Responses was held in Kuala Lumpur on 28-30 November 2004.
As India moves to meet a New Year's Day deadline to comply with the TRIPS regime of the WTO the cheap, generic anti-AIDS drugs that this country is famed for could be a thing of the past.
